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The collection gathers lyrical sequences and sonnets in a confessional voice that probes modern female identity, desire, and social performance. One extended autobiographical sequence composed of many thirteen-line terzine reads like a novel without plot, tracing appetite, flirtation, indifference, and the exhilaration of urban fashion and nightlife; other poems, including more compact sonnets, record earlier romantic suffering and youthful passions. The speaker juxtaposes classical female archetypes with a contemporary Parisian model to explore ambivalence toward love, liberty, and reputation, using vivid sensory detail, psychological introspection, and recurring images of gaze, costume, jealousy, and theatricalized seduction.
Bevvi a piccoli sorsi la menzogna,
come un filtro che induce fantasie
fascinatoci al cuore di chi sogna.
In ogni cosa io scoprii malie
nuove. Talvolta perseguii la traccia
di un dolce incanto per malcerte vie.
Non riguardai l'ingannatore in faccia,
per non tremar di oscura diffidenza
nell'amoroso cerchio di sue braccia.
Quegli blandiva: — Niuna sapienza
che insegni vale un bel gioco che finga.
E mi versava in cuore una sua essenza
fatta d'ombra, d'amore e di lusinga.